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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I believe in public schools.

Full stop.

It actually seriously annoys me how many of my neighbors (CCMD, the named part) send their kids to private school. It’s like you have all the resources to build a strong community resource but your ego wins?!?[/quote]

I'm in DC and feel this way about both private school AND charters. So many neighbors who send their kid to privates (including mediocre privates) or to a charter two miles away. We have a good IB school! They'll tell you that it's just that the school wasn't right for their kid because they needed XYZ to "thrive". But my feeling is that if my kid needs XYZ, I'll look to provide that myself. But she will go to the neighborhood public school where she will learn to be part of a community of children with varying needs, backgrounds, family situations, etc. Concur with what others have said about kids needing to learn about people unlike themselves and develop empathy and good citizenship. I just don't see how you do that by sending your child to a school where the kids and families are as similar to you as possible. When do they get outside that bubble?[/quote]

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